The nurse caring for a client who was the victim of Intimate Partner Abuse (IPV) has identified the nursing diagnosis of "Ineffective Coping, related to a situational crisis secondary to ongoing cycle of violence, as evidenced by inability to ask

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for help." A possible outcome objective for this diagnosis would be which of the following? a. The client will state reasons her husband needed to hurt her.
b. The client will verbalize her feelings, strengths, and needs.
c. The client will state that she deserved to be battered.
d. The client will not press charges against her husband.

Answer 1

B
The most appropriate outcome for a nursing diagnosis of "Ineffective Coping, related to a situational crisis secondary to ongoing cycle of violence, as evidenced by inability to ask for help," is for the client to verbalize her feelings, strengths, and needs. The other outcomes do not demonstrate improvement in the client's thinking.